Policies, players and issues across the region.

Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems

September, 2012. Linwood Pendleton, Daniel C. Donato, Brian C. Murray, Stephen Crooks, W. Aaron Jenkins, Samantha Sifleet, Christopher Craft, James W. Fourqurean, J. Boone Kauffman, Núria Marbà, Patrick Megonigal, Emily Pidgeon, Dorothee Herr, David Gordon, Alexis Baldera. PLoS ONE 7(9): e43542. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043542

Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps

January, 2012. A. Baccini, S. J. Goetz, W. S. Walker, N. T. Laporte, M. Sun, D. Sulla-Menashe, J. Hackler, P. S. A. Beck, R. Dubayah, M. A. Friedl, S. Samanta & R. A. Houghton. Nature Climate Change. Letters. DOI:10.1038/nclimate1354

Draft decision -/CP.17 Guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards are addressed & respected & modalities relating to forest reference emission levels & forest reference levels as referred to in decision 1/CP.16

December, 2011. Draft decision -/CP.17. Advance unedited version. 4 pages

WWF LIVING FORESTS REPORT: CHAPTER 1. FORESTS FOR A LIVING PLANET

April, 2011. Rod Taylor (Ed. In chief). WWF – World Wide Fund for Nature. 37 pages. ISBN 978-2-940443-32-1

Diagnosing the uncertainty and detectability of emission reductions for REDD + under current capabilities: an example for Panama

April, 2011. Johanne Pelletier, Navin Ramankutty and Catherine Potvin. Environ. Res. Lett. 6 024005 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024005